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...army the world has ever known, led by the Persian tyrant Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro). Faced with an enemy determined to conquer the ancient world, the Spartans must prove that they really are history’s greatest warriors. With that premise, how could “300” disappoint? Well, to begin with, it’s a painfully overdone film. Dialogue often consists of no more than characters losing limbs and yelling “MY ARM!” The script suffers from unnecessary sex scenes, giving the impression that the directors deliberately added certain content...
...talents. Coming on the heels of “Irreplaceable,” the last single off of “B’Day,” this video returns to the bootylicious dancing and gyrating that made Beyoncé a household name. She doesn’t disappoint, popping and rolling through a dance sequence that capitalizes on the fast beat and fluid lyrics of “Upgrade U.” In the video’s only truly innovative sequence, Beyoncé lip-syncs Jay-Z’s verse while dressed in his signature...
...habit of telling silent stories to people who slight him—people whom he thinks would act differently if they knew the story of his suffering. Slowly but surely, Deng’s story unfolds through narratives he intends for various people who disappoint him in America. Everything from the happy, simpler days of Deng’s childhood to the horrors of the Lost Boys’ trek through the desert to his new life of adjusting to various American cities is subtly rendered and full of unembellished emotion. Given almost constant exposure to the new and other...
...recently resuscitated group (lead singer Kristopher Roe is the only original member remaining), you may be left wondering what’s become of The Ataris’ catchy, youthful sound. With this album, the band that left high school punk rock fans for the mainstream may even disappoint the squares who rocked out to “The Boys of Summer” and “In This Diary” from “Goodbye, Astoria.” Though the band’s Web site praises their hard work, calling the new record...
...with me, I invited all of his roommates to go to see ‘The DaVinci Code,’” Amy says of their first date. “This was the only one willing to drop everything and go. I was a little disappointed,” she jokes. “Luke? Really?”Luke lightheartedly counters, saying that it was “partially desperation” that accounted for their spending time together at first.The pair met a little over a year ago. “Apparently it wasn?...